Node.js Script to Download Website Source Code HTML+CSS+JS Files From URL For Offline Use Full App

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be downloading website source code including the html,css and javascript files from url for offline use in node.js. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to initialize a new node.js project using the below command as shown below

npm init -y

npm i node-site-downloader

And now basically you can execute the below command to download the website source code from the url as shown below

Usage

1	node-site-downloader download DOMAIN START_POINT OUTPUT_FOLDER [VERBOSE] [OUTPUT_FOLDER_SUFFIX] [INCLUDE_IMAGES]

Here in the above command we need to replace the DOMAIN name and also you need to provide the path for the output_folder and also you need to provide the images suffix to fetch images also

1	node-site-downloader download -s https://jestjs.io/docs/en/getting-started -d https://jestjs.io/docs/en/ -o jest-docs -v --include-images

As you can see it will create the directory of the website and inside it we have the html,css and javascript files as shown below

And now we can use the library inside the node.js app. For this we need to make a new index.js file and copy paste the following code

index.js

const fs = require("fs");

const {exec} = require('child_process')

const websiteUrl = 'https://nodejs.org/';

var directoryPath = Date.now()

exec(`node-site-downloader download -s ${websiteUrl} -d ${websiteUrl} -o ${directoryPath} -v --include-images`,(err,stdout,stderr) =>{

if(err){

console.log(err)

}

})